James Lovelock, the scientist who styled himself as an independent researcher and discovered the chemicals that were destroying the ozone layer, predicted the dangers of climate change, and even helped the British secret services to detect Irish Republican Army bombs. Lovelock known as the father of Gala Theory, the idea that life on Earth is a self-sustaining system in which organisms interact with their environments to maintain a habitable ecosystem. During the Second World War he worked at the National Medical Research Institute, where his life-long interest in chemical tracing began. In the 1960s he worked at NASA and for … Continue reading Lovelock’s technology that found the hole in the Ozone layer